6 Questions with Justin Barad, CEO/Founder of Osso VR, redefining orthopedic training

"irtual orthopedic training is booming amid Covid and the Orthopedics 3.0 movement. One major player leading the way in the VR training space in orthopedics is Osso VR.
The Osso VR origin story really dates back to high school for me. Back then my goal in life was to be a video game developer. I started coding at a young age which led to the opportunity to work at Activision during high school and even earn a game credit. I was well on my way when I had a bit of a wake up call when a family member became ill. I started wondering, and to some point became fixated, on if software and technology, which I was so passionate about, could be used not just for entertainment but to help people with medical challenges.
This led me to pivot and pursue Biomedical Engineering at UC Berkeley with the goal to invent a new healthcare technology. Although my goal was clear to me, as I neared graduation I realized I didn’t really know how to get started with innovation. I sought advice from a mentor of mine and he told me, “If you want to invent something, you need to understand the problem you’re trying to solve first.” He felt the best way to understand medical problems was to be a doctor.
Taking his advice quite literally, I subsequently attended medical school at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and stayed there to do my orthopaedic residency. It was during my training I began experiencing first hand what I believe to be one of the most critical challenges we face in healthcare today: how we train and assess our healthcare professionals with their technical skills...." Lire la suite